Chief Digital and Information Officer: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

You can review the candidate pack here As Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO), you will provide strategic and executive leadership for Frimley Health’s digital, data, information, AI and technology agenda, ensuring digital capability is embedded at the heart of delivering safe, high-quality, efficient and person-centred care. As a Trust Board member, you will play a full role in the strategic leadership of the organisation, sharing collective responsibility for quality, performance, finance, workforce, culture, risk management and the delivery of safe and effective services. Leading a diverse portfolio spanning digital delivery, data and analytics, clinical coding, Epic optimisation, cyber security, information governance and clinical informatics, you will drive service transformation, productivity, clinical excellence, patient experience and financial sustainability. Working with a highly experienced senior leadership team, you will ensure a clear distinction between maintaining reliable day-to-day digital services and delivering transformational change, with both functions measured against their own outcomes and success criteria.

Please see the above candidate pack for a full range of duties and responsibilities for this role.

Please note – If applying for this role – Please include a covering letter to be embedded in your CV which will then be uploaded when you make your application via trac.

Main duties of the job

• Digital strategy and transformation, aligned to FHFT 2030, the clinical strategy, the new hospital programme and system responsibilities.
• Epic optimisation making the EPR a clinician-centred platform that demonstrably improves workflow, documentation, patient flow and clinical decision support.
• Information, analytics and business intelligence building a trusted, well-governed data capability including the Trust data lake, self-service reporting and advanced analytics.
• Clinical coding and information quality.
• AI strategy, governance and adoption moving from pilots to safe, governed production at scale, with a protected innovation budget.
• Virtual care, remote monitoring, population health intelligence and digitally enabled pathways.
• The new Frimley Park Hospital ensuring it is digitally enabled, data-rich, AI-ready and designed around future models of care.
• Connected Care exploitation, population segmentation and system intelligence.
• Cyber security, digital resilience, information governance and SIRO responsibilities.
• Digital operations, service management and 24/7 reliability of clinical and corporate systems.
• Digital capital planning, asset lifecycle management and end-to-end commercial and contract management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to master’s level or equivalent senior experience
• evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

• A recognised programme management qualification (e.g. MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner) and/or a service management qualification (e.g. ITIL).

General Requirments

Essential

• Undertake statutory and mandatory training and maintain professional competence.
• Work flexibly across Trust sites and with system partners, including participation in the executive on-call rota.
• Comply with all Trust policies including equality, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, risk management, data protection and information governance.

Competence

Essential

• Experience of managing significant revenue and capital budgets, digital capital planning and an end-to-end commercial lifecycle — sourcing, procurement and contract management — for a large, complex estate.
• Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries and influence within an ICS or wider system.
• A visible, compassionate and inclusive leader who can lead complex change at scale, build high-performing teams, establish clear accountability and delegate effectively, with outstanding communication and influencing skills.
• Integrity, openness, courage, humility and resilience, with patients, staff and communities at the centre of your decisions.
• Comply with all Trust policies including equality, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, risk management, data protection and information governance.

Desirable

• Experience of shared care record platforms and population segmentation methodologies such as Johns Hopkins ACG.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial senior digital, data, technology or transformation leadership at or near Board level in a large, complex NHS, public sector or comparable organisation.
• A track record of developing and delivering digital, data or technology strategies and major programmes with measurable improvements in quality, productivity, performance or outcomes.
• Strong working understanding of the NHS digital, data, cyber, information governance, clinical safety, EPR and statutory reporting context.
• Strong understanding of EPRs and their role in clinical transformation, ideally including Epic and digital maturity frameworks such as HIMSS EMRAM.

Desirable

• Experience of leading the safe, ethical and well-governed adoption of AI, automation and advanced analytics, and of evaluating and scaling digital innovation.

Closing Date: 27 September 2026